Abrego Garcia supporters hope release from ICE custody is a "turning point"
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's supporters are applauding after he was released from immigration custody on Thursday.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's supporters are applauding after he was released from immigration custody on Thursday.
Security and law enforcement will be ramped up in Baltimore this weekend for the prestigious military football rivalry between Army and Navy, which will be played at M&T Bank Stadium.
Tens of millions of dollars are coming to help pay for deferred maintenance at Howard County public schools, thanks to a bill county council passed back in April.
Advocates with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender are raising concerns about what they are calling "inhumane conditions" at a youth detention facility in Baltimore.
Howard County's Jewish community is celebrating a big milestone: 40 years since the county's first Chabad came to be.
After nearly 10 months, the Howard County Board of Education approved its latest round of redistricting, shuffling more than 140 elementary and middle school students.
Many Oakland Mills High School students staged a walkout Thursday, protesting the Howard County Board of Education's decision to defer renovations.
In about 18 months, a 16,000-square-foot, 22-room facility will be completed. It will not only provide private rooms and bathrooms, but it will also become a vital connection point for resources.
The Howard County Council voted to move forward with the plans for a new central branch library on Columbia's lakefront after more than two and a half years.
Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan announced her resignation.
A Baltimore federal judge will decide whether property owners in the line of the proposed Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project can hunt on their property when the property is set to be surveyed.
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Two weeks after voting to defer renovations at Oakland Mills High School, a Howard County Board of Education member appeared to regret her vote.
Howard High School's girls volleyball team ended a decades-long drought, winning the school a state championship on Saturday.
If the board officially votes it in at its next meeting, the plan will move around 146 elementary and middle school students.